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Mark Torchia and Richard Tyc

Mark Torchia and Richard Tyc - 2016 Governor General's Innovation Awards Winners

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Mark Torchia and Richard Tyc are the creators of the NeuroBlate System, a medical device that combines a novel laser probe system with real-time image guidance. Using magnetic resonance imaging and sophisticated software, the tool allows neurosurgeons in Canada and abroad to treat brain tumours and other intracranial targets in a minimally invasive way that also reduces post-operative care and health costs. As the executive director of the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at

Breanne Everett

Breanne Everett - 2016 Governor General's Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Dr. J. Breanne Everett is the CEO and co-founder of Orpyx, as well as a medical doctor and resident in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Calgary. Breanne Everett co-founded Orpyx Medical Technologies to develop her idea for shoe insoles that prompts patients with diabetic foot conditions to move their feet to improve blood flow. This unique, wearable technology has improved users’ quality of life and reduced health care costs by decreasing the risks of sores, infection and

Robert Burrell - 2016 Governor General's Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Dr. Robert E. Burrell is currently a Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Biomaterials, the Sorensen Chair in the Commercialization of Biomedical Technology, and a professor and chair of biomedical engineering in the faculties of engineering and medicine & dentistry at the University of Alberta. Robert Burrell’s Acticoat, the world’s first therapeutic medical application of nanotechnology, is the first burn dressing to simultaneously kill bacteria and decrease inflammation. This

Colonel George Gallie Nasmith Jacket photograph from the book On the Fringe of the Great Fight, by G. G. Nasmith McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917

Health & Wellness

Colonel George Gallie Nasmith: Mobile Water Filtration for the Allies

Canadian War Museum

George Gallie Nasmith was a Provincial Board of Health chemist and the Director of Laboratories at the Department of Health of the City of Toronto. Nasmith tried to enlist for service during the First World War but was turned away because of his height: 4 ft. 6 in. He appealed and eventually received authority to organize a laboratory to test and purify drinking water for Canadians overseas. He was responsible for the water supply at Valcartier Camp, in Quebec, in 1914, and later served in the

Dr Harold Elford Johns, inventor of the first cobalt-60 radiotherapy unit in the world. Source: University of Saskatchewan

Harold Elford Johns, 1915–1998

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Harold Johns developed powerful new radiation instruments to treat cancer — finding peacetime uses for wartime nuclear technology. Harold Elford Johns introduced high-energy radioactive isotopes into cancer treatment, helping to pioneer the field of nuclear medicine. Previous radiation treatments had proven ineffective, leaving cancer patients with burns and other medical complications. Johns, who joined the University of Saskatchewan’s physics department — and the province’s new Cancer

GlobalMedic's Rapid Response Team installs blast film in Ukraine.

GlobalMedic | Blast Film

In eastern Ukraine, GlobalMedic has delivered programs that protect vulnerable civilians affected by the ongoing conflict, through the installation of blast film on the windows of institutional buildings. The 3M™ Scotchshield™ Safety & Security Window Film saves lives in the event of an explosion by preventing glass from shattering, thereby eliminating serious and fatal injuries caused by glass projectiles. GlobalMedic has installed the film on 14 buildings along the frontline of the conflict to

Rainfresh Household Water Purification Units

Engineering & Technology

GlobalMedic | Rainfresh Household Water Purification Units

Rainfresh Household Water Purification Units are point-of-use water filtration systems, designed to provide safe drinking water from virtually any water source. In the aftermath of an emergency, diseases caused by contaminated drinking water pose the greatest threat to affected families. GlobalMedic has partnered with Canadian ceramic filter producer Envirogard to distribute Rainfresh units around the world and provide an innovative, inexpensive, low-tech and environmentally friendly drinking

Clifford Taylor: George Metcalf Archival Collection, Canadian War Museum 20110152-019 b

Dr. Clifford Taylor and Kathleen McGrath: Making Prosthetic Eyes for Canadian Soldiers

Canadian War Museum

Dr. Clifford Alfred Taylor, a Toronto ophthalmologist, researched glass and experimented with it at the National Research Council in Ottawa during the Second World War. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Science, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Together with his laboratory technician and assistant, Kathleen McGrath, Dr. Taylor travelled throughout Canada, fitting and making prosthetic eyes for blinded and disfigured ex

Operating Room: Painted by Charles Goldhamer in 1945, Beaverbrook Collection of War Art Canadian War Museum 19710261-3899

Dr. Ross Tilley: Rebuilding Faces and Lives

Canadian War Museum

Aviation burns were horrific. During the Second World War, plastic surgery techniques developed rapidly, helping victims lead more normal lives. Dr. Archibald McIndoe, a British plastic surgeon, and Dr. Ross Tilley, a Royal Canadian Air Force medical officer, pioneered a highly successful physical and emotional rehabilitation program at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, England. Of the 650 men treated in this experimental program, 176 were Canadians. The patients, who recognized the

Blood Transfusion Kit: Canadian War Museum 19801092-003

Doctor Norman Miles Guiou: Pioneering Blood Transfusions for Wounded Soldiers

Canadian War Museum

This portable transfusion kit belonged to Canadian Army Medical Corps doctor Norman Miles Guiou, a pioneer of blood transfusion during the First World War. Guiou’s simple techniques helped save the lives of wounded soldiers who otherwise would have died from blood loss and shock. Guiou transfused blood directly from donors to wounded men using tubing or a syringe. This meant that the transfusion could take place at advanced dressing stations close to the front lines, allowing the injured to

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